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David Beckham
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Hi,
Can anyone pls let me know how can I find the current RSU Maintanence level of an Active DB2 system.
Is ther any MVS or DB2 commands to find this? |
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enrico-sorichetti
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ask Your support, they know ...
but remember there is not such a thing as a maintenance level for any IBM products
the general flow is...
IBM ships a product with some maintenamce applied,
with the product usually a tape is shipped cotaining up to the last month od released PTFs for the product
from then on ( depending on the agreement with IBM ) a monthly PTF tape might be shipped
so generally speaking a produst might be to a PUT ( Ptf Update Tape )
od a certain month
but, there are some other concerns ...
PTFS are atomic
some PTFs might not have been applied due to HOLD status or missing prerequisites
some other ptfs might have been applied on specific needs ( single request to IBM )
but... why do You want to know ?? |
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David Beckham
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Hi,
Actullay I am a support guy, i know the Maint level of the system, jus wanna know how to track Maintanence level if it's not documented for the DB2 system |
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enrico-sorichetti
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| i know the Maint level of the system |
wow, what magic did You use 
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| jus wanna know how to track Maintanence level if it's not documented for the DB2 system |
it' s a long time that IBM ( and other products too ) are installed using SMPE
but if You clobber the system without using SMPE 
learn about zOS installation and maintenance
www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246981.html?Open
www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246982.html?Open
again, as I said before,
there is not such a thing as a system maintenance level
as per IBM PTF philosophy You will only find a module maitenance level
wander thru the SMPE interactive dialogs
once upon a time it was a habit to apply periodically preventive maintenance,
it meant to have available most of the time a sistem for a thorough regression test,
now it is more common to ...
install a product with all the preventive maintenance applied up to the installation date
run all the tests fo the new environment
apply maintenance for errors discovered during the test
deploy the whole shebang to production
after that apply maintenance with a strict screening methodology
HYPER mods released by IBM
FIXES for malfunctions found during normal operations...
testing is easier, ( just try to reproduce the error by rerunning the failng program )
usually only a few modules are involved...
fallback will not be painful |
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